Gnat's buzz. (Cf. A2236.1.)

Motif

Gnat's buzz. (Cf. A2236.1.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: voice and hearing. · view the constellation · filed as A2426.3.2

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Literary CrystallizationThus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, Chapter 50L. ON THE OLIVE-MOUNT.

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Filed under Sounds of insects.

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Beetle's hum. (Cf. A2231.11.)Fly's buzz. (Cf. A2239.2.)Cricket's chirp. (Cf. A2272.1.2.)Mosquito's buzz Speech of fireflies

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What creature has sweetest blood: gnat's tongue torn out. Assembly to decide who has the sweetest blood so that it may be the food for the serpent. Gnat discovers that man has the sweetest blood. Rather than let him tell this secret, swallow tears out his tongue. Gnat can only buzz. (Cf. A2344.2, A2426.3.2.)

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